Belchem's 1985 work on Henry Hunt made a "major contribution to our understanding" of political strategies of progressive movements in 19th-century Britain.[7]Industrialization and the Working Class (1990) was viewed as a "lucid and wide-ranging survey of recent works on working-class movements and their context."[8]Popular Radicalism in Nineteenth-Century Britain (1996) was reviewed as an "excellent work" and a "valuable guide" to the literature on Chartism and the origins of the Labour Party.[9]Merseypride (2000),a collection of essays on the history of Liverpool,is considered to be a "valuable work...of a consistently high standard."[10] His Irish,Catholic and Scouse (2007) was noted to have made a "vital contribution to the historiography of the Irish in Britain."[11]
Other activities
Belchem worked on Liverpool's successful bid for UNESCOWorld Heritage Site status in 2004.[12][13] In 2017,[14] he was appointed to the Liverpool mayor's task force,which assisted in efforts that ensured the city's status was not lost when under review by UNESCO in 2018.[15][16][17]
↑ SSLH. "Society officers". Society for the Study of Labour History. Archived from the original on 28 December 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
↑ Sykes, Robert (1987). "Review of Orator Hunt, Henry Hunt and English Working-Class Radicalism". Social History. 12 (2): 253–256. ISSN0307-1022. JSTOR4285605.
↑ Stevenson, John (1994). "Review of Industrialization and the Working Class: The English Experience, 1750-1900". The English Historical Review. 109 (431): 483–484. ISSN0013-8266. JSTOR574128.
"Professor John Belchem biography"(PDF). Beyond Impacts – Lessons and legacies from researching Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture. University of Liverpool. 12 March 2010. p.2.
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